``Any new charges would come just weeks before the first criminal trial related to the Madoff case. On Oct. 7, five former employees of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities are scheduled to stand trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan on charges they aided the fraud. Each of the five employees -- Daniel Bonventre, Annette Bongiorno, Joann Crupi, Jerome O'Hara and George Perez -- worked at the firm for more than 15 years.
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